Yeah, most of it was stuff that has been long-staged in the basement that we brought upstairs a few days ago in preparation. This includes probably about four or five shelves worth of the kids' old books, many of which they passed up long ago, but it is mainly clothes, shoes, jackets and things like that. There are also two working VCRs and the final load of VHS tapes in this haul, which means that we'll be free of another thing that took up quite a bit of space.
Of course, the kids saw the bags of toys finally last night - "I need those toys!", pointing to things they haven't played with since they were three or four.
You shouldn't feel too badly about that long overdue discipline. Seemed well deserved to me.
More importantly, Go Blue! Plenty of Michigan action to follow this weekend—not just men's hoops vs. Texas. There's also women's hoops in the WNIT, baseball opening Big Ten play at Indiana, and women's gymnastics going for Big Ten title #21.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:06 AM ^
Section 1 got nuked.
yo' couch!
March 21st, 2014 at 11:18 AM ^
UNITY!!!!
March 21st, 2014 at 11:23 AM ^
Hey bitch - go over there and have sex with Charlie Murphy!
I think I'll watch a little basketball over a leisurely lunch today, then head to my buddy's house for some nice scotch, basketball, and non-meat pizza (it's Friday). Don't know what to do tomorrow until 5, though.
Posbang me, por favor.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:01 AM ^
Double post! Pbbbfffffttttt!
March 21st, 2014 at 10:07 AM ^
Seeing that really makes me miss Bloom County.
March 21st, 2014 at 12:14 PM ^
your "Double Post ACK!" has more upvotes than your original post. IOW, your screw-ups are more highly valued than your actual contributions. Keep up the good work!
(FWIW I posbanged both posts.)
I wish I had the day off to drink some beer and continue to enjoy this freakin awesome March Madness. Still can't believe all of the OT games last night.
Just getting over a bout of food poisoning in time for the weekend. Go blue, beat Texas!
I may not be winning a billion dollars but this tourney has been fun to watch so far!
It's another snowy day in Syracuse. Fortunately, I have a mountain of work to do to keep me occupied until the games start. I'm a bit torn about rooting against, Duke, though, as a victory over them is integral to my redemption bracket, which has us beating past opponents Duke, Louisville and Arizona to get to the finals. Wait - F that. Go Mercer!
Zactly, Seth.
Beat Texas!!!!
As quoted by Bill Cosby: "Giving birth is like stretching your bottom lip over your head" (or words to that effect).
If his wife stands up in the stirrups and reaches for his face, that might be a good time to sit out the rest of the delivery.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:24 AM ^
if during labor you dare say something along the lines of, "but honey, we agreed on natural childbirth!"
btw- "only 38 weeks?"
March 21st, 2014 at 12:17 PM ^
I say he's never going to forgive HIMSELF for the damage.
put too much faith in those measurements.
My eldest daughter was 11 lbs. 2 oz. at 36 weeks and they wanted to do a C-Section. She ended up coming out natural at 39 weeks at a mere 8 lbs. 1 oz.
Son was supposedly going to come out around 10 lbs. He was 7 lbs. 12 oz.
Youngest daughter measured 9 lbs. 6 oz. at 38 weeks. Came out 8 lbs. 4 oz.
Feel like the ultrasound techs/radiologists are way off. Or maybe we were going to a meteorologist???
March 21st, 2014 at 10:04 AM ^
I feel like I'm in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory reading this.
March 21st, 2014 at 12:04 PM ^
Sounds like a LiveTweet opportunity to me.
I have restarted a tradition I maintained from 1985-1998. Buy a ton of beer, chips, and liquor - take Thursday afternoon through Friday off and then spend Thursday - Sunday in my basement watching basketball, drinking & eating junk for four straight days.
This year my brother has come down from Michigan to join in the basketball-basement highjinks. Avatar wife comes down from time to time to watch when Michigan is on but is otherwise pretty much doing "girl things" this weekend.
LIFE IS GOOD & GO BLUE!
Until I'm in Vegas. Hopefully Michigan will be getting ready at that point for a Sweet 16 matchup with UMASS (my wife went to school there so would be fun to have a little family war break out) or Dook (rekindling an old rivalry in a non-Cameron setting).
In the past I always went to Vegas for the first 3 days of the tournament but the logistics this year didn't work out. So it's on to Plan B - Vegas for the Sweet 16/Elite 8, and the iPad at work streaming all the games in Rounds 1 and 2**.
** I refuse to acknowledge that yesterday/today is "Round 2" and tomorrow/Sunday is "Round 3." I don't care how many times CBS uses that nomenclature - I'll never capitulate!
March 21st, 2014 at 10:03 AM ^
Man I'm feeling old reading all these posts. I'm excited to give my 4 year old daughter the Frozen DVD we bought her for Friday movie night with the family. I'm just glad we played last night or I'd have some explaining to do! Everyone have a drink for me tonight!!
March 21st, 2014 at 10:25 AM ^
If you don't mind me asking, what happened to our old crumdgeoning friend Section 1?
March 21st, 2014 at 10:45 AM ^
Just ran through the thread (and Nosce Te Ipsum's 6 pages of the same comment). I definitely saw old Section 1 get loose with the hate and anger but he still has 16,000+ points (and for that matter Nosce still has over 6,000+). Generally I thought trips to Bolivia involved negative numbers.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:48 AM ^
Bolivia'd. He got the banhammer.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:52 AM ^
Where? I saw his last comment was "Fuck Bolivia" but nothing after that indicated the hammer dropped.
March 21st, 2014 at 10:57 AM ^
The comments didn't get collapsed, but if you click on Section 1 or Nosce Te Ipsum, it says "Access denied."
They are no longer with us.